As the weeks go by it’s starting to get pretty hard to find any kind of silver lining under this dome. But this week, as the residents of Chester’s Mill face imminent death, there was love blossoming, scores settled and not a single mention of the royal baby.

Whoever is running things outside the dome hosted a visiting day where people cut off from their loved ones were bussed to the edge to see them. Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez) reconnected with her boyfriend, who capitalized on her isolation by getting them a cover of People magazine (which he showed her on his handy and functional Microsoft Surface™ tablet). They made out through the dome, and surprisingly neither of their tongues got stuck to it. Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) also got a visitor from her birth father, who her moms had told her was an anonymous sperm donor. I don’t really care about this storyline because 1) the guy is obviously a jerk, and 2) it’s pointless if he doesn’t own a Surface™.

As for actual important things that happened on visiting day, Dodee (Jolene Purdy) triumphantly returned to the show to help Barbie (Mike Vogel) lip-read some intel from a marine on the other side of the dome. The marine says there is a MOAB — Mother Of All Bombs — headed toward the dome in 3 hours. This bomb is intended to topple the dome and probably all of the people under it. Julia runs to the radio station where she sends out an emergency alert for all of the dome people to go to some warehouse for safety, and most of them do.

For some, before they can go into hiding from the nuclear apocalypse there are a few loose ends to be tied up. Actually, Angie (Britt Robertson) had already been tied up for four episodes before Big Jim (Dean Norris) found her in last week’s cliffhanger. After realizing that his son Junior (Alexander Koch) was behind it, he let Angie go, only for Junior to find and re-capture her with the help of his newly issued policeman’s handgun. Then later, Big Jim responded to a blackmail threat from the town reverend by murdering him in cold blood, so I guess that’s where Junior gets it from.

As the bomb finally goes off, most of our protagonists are heading for safety, except Norrie and Joe (Colin Ford), who are

still looking for Joe’s sister Angie. In a very “Deep Impact” moment they decide to give up and make out on a bench while the world crumbles around them — but wait! The bomb is unable to penetrate the dome. In typical teen fashion, Norrie and Joe assume the world revolves around them and that their seven minutes in heaven “saved” the dome. The stupid part is it actually might have somehow.

Next week, the dome meets an unlikely antagonist (weather — specifically rain?), the townspeople deal with their sexual frustration (or just Julia and Barbie), and everyone who shouldn’t have any power (murderers! Stalkers! TEENAGERS!) is in complete control.

Ridiculous, sure, but as long as no one conceives a prince this season, I’m still in.

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